blueprint to this, because it looks like they are all just doing their own thing. >> they are. after the jump cut, after the music changes, they all follow the same template, one guy or one person sits there and dances sort of like this, everyone ignores him, bang, it exclouds. go on youtube. don't go now but after the program is over. if you go on youtube you'll see how people are expressing themselves and that's what makes it mesmerizing, had a these guys are going to do, these people. college students, people in the military doing it. celebrities doing it now, and this is in one week, and that's what's remarkable. over 1.5 million videos are uploaded to youtube every day. somehow these have broken through. >> why are there so many versions? thousands upon thousands of new videos popping up every time we look up. that's the one you were talking about, the dad. kids always win, right in. >> it's so's because you've got the guy sitting in front of the computer, sit there for ten seconds and do almost nothing and then it changes and the father and son dance.

it has 3 million hits in a week. that's remarkable. if you follow youtube to that that in a week, no celebrities, not really on tv. >> on jon stewart though. >> jon stewart. he's so darn funny, i can't stand that man in the best possible way. cracking me up. fellow cnners did make a video yesterday, by the way. i want to show you this. >> we have it. >> there we go. >> do the harlem shake. >> here's -- they stand there and then it explodes, but i want to see other people. i want to see wolf blitzer make one, the whole team. i want to see chris cuomo making one now. >> oh, wow. we'll make sure we let him know that and see if it works. thank you so much, gene. >> good to see you this morning. have a nice weekend. nice to see you today. "state of the union" with candy crowley starts now. have bully pulpit, will travel. today from decatur to asheville

and chicago, the president pushes gun control, a higher minimum wage and universal pre-school. >> and that whole plan, well, others by the way, is a trade we could use more often in washington. >> a conversation with senator chuck schumer about reality. what and when can the senate deliver? >> and -- >> i'm not interested in an 11th hour negotiation. >> republicans dig in from budget cuts to some of the president's nominees. we'll talk with a member of the republican leadership team, senator john barrasso from wyoming, and mandatory spending cuts take effect from eleven days from now. >> it would have destructive cuts on national security, defense. >> average wait times to clear customs will increase by 50%. >> all this is purely the collateral damage of political gridlock. >> senator jack reed of rhode island and intelligence committee chairman mike rogers

on whether sequestration is that dire and that inevitable. >> sort of predictable. >> the head of the motion picture association deflects criticism that entertainment violence contributes to gun crime. that and more with our political roundtable. i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." before taking his show on the road, the president laid out his agenda in front of congress. house speaker john boehner called it more of the same and suggested where the president could take his proposals. >> the president elects to attack congress, but if he's serious about enacting his agenda, i think it must start with part of this congress it a his party controls, the united states senate. you know, what can he get passed in the united states senate? >> joining me now is the number three democrat in the senate, senate chuck schumer out of new york for us today. senator, thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> let me ask you that question. we see the president. he wants to increase the minimum wage. he wants to do something about

reducing carbon in the air, universal pre-school, immigration, guns, more money for infrastructure. you know congress. i know congress. what is reasonable to expect you will get done this year? >> well, i think that there's going to be more done than most people think, and that's because -- >> and that would be what specifically do you think will get done? >> well, i think immigration has a very decent chance of getting done. we're working hard on a bipartisan proposal on guns. i think we're going to avoid sequestration, and the proposal that we've made will prevail. i think that on some of these jobs issues, you heard eric cantor in a speech where he talked about the same issues that the president did, so i think you're going to find out on minimum wage, we're going to bring that to the floor this spring, and i think you're going to find we'll get more republican support than people think because the policy -- >> that's different than passing, it as you know. there's a lot of thought that the minimum wage, which appears

to be something that's not going to clear congress is this year, is more about setting up 2014 to give democrats something to rail against republicans on. >> well, it is an issue of fairness. if you work 40 hours a week, you shouldn't be way below the poverty level. the minimum wage is at a lower level than 1960, and i think that you may find some republicans changing their minds on these issues. what i was saying, candy, i think there's a sea change in our politics. the politics of obstruction, the politics of just cutting, cutting, cutting and shrinking, shrinking, shrinking, not things that are need to be slunk are cut, but everything across the board is losing clout, and i have seen it in many areas. our republican colleagues are coming to the middle to meet us. we'll have to come to the middle to meet them, too, but there will be less obstructionism. i can't predict which issues, but i predict it will be a more productive congress than the last one. >> let me take some of these issues one by one. first of all what, makes you

think that sequestration will not take place which, boy, most people up there this week have said, yeah, it's going to happen, and that is the across-the-board spending cuts. >> here's what i think. i think democrats have the high ground, both substantively and politically, and we will win on this issue. why? the bottom line is very simple. the republicans are proposing devastating cuts. they would lose -- >> but you all agreed to these across-th across-th across-th across-the-board cuts. >> please, i would like to finish what i'm saying here. 750,000 jobs will be lost. the economy will shrink by 6%, and what we've produced is very simple. it's closing loopholes. the only people who support them are the people who benefit them from them, oil and gas loopholes, the idea that businesses shouldn't get breaks by sending jobs overseas, the idea that someone who makes over $1 million should pay a higher rate than others, and whether it's right on the eve of

sequestration or if god forbid it has to take effect for a few days, the devastating effects will be so strong. the president will be out there on his bully pulpit that just like on the fiscal cliff republicans will come on board. they have no choice. their arguments are untenable and don't meet the favor of hardly anyone other than themselves and the few whose special interests they are protecting. >> let me move you on to immigration simply because we now see the white house sort of draft immigration bill, at least the skeleton of it, has been leaked out there. we know that democrats had been saying to the white house we don't -- please don't put your proposal out there because these are very delicate negotiations. we see marco rubio, part of the bipartisan group that you are also working with on immigration, said the president's plan is dead on arrival. this leak cannot help the cause on capitol hill. >> well, look, i -- i don't know what bill the president has out there. i haven't seen it, but they did

say last night when this leak occurred, and i don't know how it occurred, that it wasn't their final or complete bill. the president and those of us working on immigration are working very well. senators durbin, menendez and bennett and i met with the president wednesday, and he agreed to give us the space we need to come up with a bipartisan proposal, so we're working well together. i know that senator rubio was upset with this leak, but -- >> are you upset? >> we talked to him. >> no, i am not upset. we've talked to senator rubio, and he's fully on board with our process, and i am very hopeful in march we will have a bipartisan bill. you know, it's obvious. if a democrat, the president or anyone else puts out what they want on their own, it's going to be different than what you have a bipartisan agreement, but only way we're going to get something done is with a bipartisan agreement, so i'm happy with the president. he's given us the space, and i'm optimistic we can get something

done. >> i have to move on to guns now and ask you. you're also working on a deal and on a bipartisan basis. how close are you to a deal of putting bill on the floor about gun control? >> well, look, we have democrats and republicans, some of whom are pro nra, have been supported by the nra and some of whom like myself have been opposed by the nra sitting down trying to negotiate the sweet spot where we can get something done. we're talking. we've made some good progess. there are still some hard issues to be resolved. guns is a very difficult issue, but our talks continue, and we've solved a good number of the problems. we have some significant problems still to overcome. >> what significant problems are there yet? >> well, i'm not going to get into the details of our negotiating publicly, but i can tell you we both made progress and have a ways to go. >> do you think that there will be any kind of assault weapons ban in your bill? >> well, i think that certainly

senator feinstein has championed assault weapons, and it will be voted on by the senate. whether it's part of our bill, we've been focusing on universal background checks where i think there's a greater chance to come to a bipartisan agreement. >> and do you have at least within your group agreement about universal background checks, at least to include those gun shows? >> we are. i'm not going to get into any details. there are many issues we've resolved and some we yet haven't. >> so as i understand you, you are looking at perhaps your bill and then maybe a separate vote on assault weapons which looks a lot less likely to pass, is that correct? >> senator leahy is going to determine the structure as we move through judiciary committee and senator reid as we move to the floor. >> but you're going to recommend something? >> we are hopefully going to recommend -- i'm certainly going to recommend; and hopefully it

will be bipartisan, and hopefully it will have those, both supported by the nra and those opposed by the nra on it. >> and finally, is there a mental health component, do you think, in what your group is working on? >> well, there's one of the aspects of things we have to clear up is mental health records. the mental health records is part of the nix system are weak. five years ago i did negotiate an improvement in that system with the nra support, and we're continuing to work in that area to tighten it up more than it was back in 2007. >> senator chuck schumer, thank you so much for joining me this morning. >> thank you. good to talk to you. >> appreciate it. should your pediatrician be allowed to ask you if you keep a gun in the house. president obama thinks so, but some republican lawmakers say it's an invasion of privacy. next up, i'll ask senator and dr. john barrasso. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head?

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hagel because when he was a republican, he attacked president bush mercilessly, at one point said he was the worst president since herbert hoover and said that the surge was the worst blunder since the vietnam war which is nonsense and was very anti his own party and people. people don't forget that. is this a revenge vote? mean, this seems -- i understand that people, a lot of republicans who personally don't like chuck hagel but is that a vote against him? >> that's not a reason. the reason is if anyone saw his testimony. it was very unsettling. it was weak and wobbly, and, you know, you want competence and confidence in the person that is going to be secretary of defense, and what we saw was a lot of confusion by this nominee. so what we're doing is just asking for some information, a little more time to get some more of the speeches that he's given, to see what he said because he said one thing on one day when it's popular and then at another time says another thing. the defense department -- this is a very, very important job. this is the number one employer of the united states, and we need to have somebody there who

can manage that, do it well and give confidence to our military. >> do you worry that there is a line between being the loyal opposition and being labeled as obstructionist, and you know that that's where democrats are going now, saying they say no to everything. this is unprecedented, et cetera, et cetera. do you think holing up the hagel vote was worth it, and do you think it puts another chink in the party image? >> this is a nomination that's being rushed through by the democrats. the hearings were only two weeks ago. the vote in the committee was just last week. there really shouldn't be a rush in something of this importance. all we've asked is for another week, asked a number of questions. they have continued to on struct this. president said he have the most transparent administration in the history of the country. why are they trying to hide and not allow us to get some information so we can vote a week from now? >> you sound a little bit as

though you'll vote against him. >> i have grave reservations. i think he's been wrong about iran, wrong about israel, wrong in iraq, wrong with nuclear weapons, absolutely i plan to vote against him. >> so do you think that the sort of discussion that has come up and the hold or whatever you want to call it that you've put on the hagel nomination, which we still expect to pass, do you think that harms soon-to-be, if you agree with that, secretary hagel in his dealings with congress? is he rendered less effective by this proses? >> he's going to be less effective because of the fact that the president nominated him. there were a lot of democrats on capitol hill that don't believe he was the best choice, and i'm sure the white house is very disturbed with how poorly he did during his confirmation hearings. i think it will impact him as he tries to limp across the finish line to get confirmed. i don't believe this is obstructionist. john kerry just got confirmed a

week or two ago for secretary of state, 96, 97 positive votes in his favor, but the cabinet is in chaos right now because of so many resignations, and i think we have another seven or eight to confirm. >> what about john brennan then, nominated to be head of the cia. he's had his hearings. >> had his hearings. not come up for a vote. there are questions by both democrats and republicans, questions about drones, questions about benghazi, lots of questions both sides of the aisle so they are not making a political statement on him because democrats have legitimate questions that they want answers to. >> what is your state of mind when it comes to a confirmation vote on brennan? >> i still want to review the hearing. they have classified hearings and then those that are not classified. i've seen the public. i want to read some of the other information. >> are you leaning one way or the other? not at this point. >> how about jack lew, treasury secretary? >> jack lew, a long history public service, but they have to ask and answer questions regarding his time on wall street, the large bonus payment

that he got not too long before the big bailout of the group that he was working for on wall street, his investments in the cayman islands for which the president criticized mitt romney, so we need an administration that doesn't say, you know, do as i say, not as i do. tim geithner, the former treasury secretary, i voted against him because he hadn't paid his taxes. american people deserve answers to these questions because the treasury secretary, candy, works not for the president or for congress, works for the american people. >> i don't know if you heard senator schumer at the top of the show. he was talking about sequestration. he expressed the belief either on the eve of or sometime in the first two or three weeks of sequestration if it goes into effect, the big across-the-board budget cuts, that republicans indeed will come to the middle and agree to essentially what the democrats have proposed which is some cuts in farm programs as well as closing the loopholes for oil and gas companies as well as taxing more

the so-called buffet tax, that no millionaire should pay less than 30%. he said that your current position, republican current position is untenable given what sequestration will do. do you think republicans will go ahead and agree to some kind of cuts and perhaps an increase in revenue for those making $1 million or more? >> no. let me be very clear, and would i say this to the president as i say it to you. these spending cuts are going to go through on march 1st. taxes are off the table. i've read the democrat proposal that even chuck schumer said is just a chess piece, so the american people need to know tax cuts are off the table, and the republican party is not in any way going to trade spending cuts for a tax increase. >> so you -- you have heard all these dire warnings, so you think republicans are willing to walk off this particular cliff

and say, no, we are not going to raise taxes in order to stop these across-the-board cuts which will dig deeply into the defense budget, among other things. >> i think there are much better ways to do the budget cuts, and i welcome that sort of discussion with the president, but the cuts are going to occur. we're talking about 2.5% of what we spend this year, and this is just the first year of ten years of cuts, so you have to be realistic about this. families all across the country, candy, have had their budgets cut by larger than that as a result of the economic downturn. >> you don't believe all the dire warnings that it's going to hollow out the military, that it's going to interfere with getting on to planes, it's going stop food inspection, you don't believe any of that. >> i believe the president has a lot of authority that he can decide how this works, and, yeah, he can make it very uncomfortable, which i think would be a mistake on the part of the president, but when you take a look at the tote al dollars there are better ways to do this, but the cuts are going

to occur. >> let me ask you. the american academy of pediatrics has backed the idea that pediatricians certainly should or could ask their -- their young patients' parents whether or not there's a gun in the house. the president in executive order said they wouldn't bar that from happening. what do you think of the general idea? you're a doctor. you've practiced to saying to a patient do you have a gun in the house? >> this has been a position of the american academy of pediatrics for a long time. they have a number of things that recommend that must gun owners, responsible individuals, do in their own homes when there are children in the homes. there is no role for the government to tell doctors what they should or should not ask the patients or families, and i really see a focus more if they worked on the mental health components with the pediatricians than what they have to or cannot do this talking to their patients. >> senator john barrasso of wyoming, thanks for being in washington this weekend.

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we'll protect to the extent we can capabilities that are critical to our new defense strategy, but the reality is we can't protect much of which is of value. >> it's a reduction in intelligence capability, training, reduction in our aviation training, so all of these will have an impact on providing much of the enabling support that we've provided to special operations forces. >> it will put the nation at greater risk of coercion, and it will break paste with men and women in uniform. >> the nation's top military leaders raising the alarm bell before automatic budget cuts go into effect march 1st. joining me now senator jack reed of rhode island and corningman mike rogers of michigan.

thank you both so much. we had sort of two different versions here so far on the show, and that is senator schumer saying i think it will get a deal, and it will include a tax on the wealthy, and we heard senator barrasso say taeg it's not going to happen. these cuts are going into effect. it's hard for me to believe that things are as dire as these military men lay out and congress is going to let it happen. >> these are serious challenges to the military, secretary cart, general odierno and general dempsey made a very compelling case before the budget op services committee and the appropriations committee. i don't think it has to happen. senator reid, harry reid, proposed legislation that would dover the sequestration to the next year. it would be paid for in a balanced way by additional revenue as well as additional -- >> tax hikes. >> indeed. >> -- cuts in spending and

that's the way to proceed in avoiding the blunt across-the-board cuts and getting us chance to get back into the regular order, proposing a budget, doing an appropriations bill. >> and we should point out, it's been the democrats who have been in charge of the senate who haven't come up with a budget for the last four years so that's why we haven't this h a regular one. >> he had the budget control act of 2011 which set the caps, which was budgetary and not a resolution between the two houses. we're working on a budget right now and need to get that done. we need time. the sequestration will preempt us from getting a budget done and other factors. >> it's kind of always that you guys need more time and can we put it off until next year. to me it's like the fiscal cliff and now it involves the military and these men saying we won't be able to do this, and the force will be hole owed out, et cetera, et cetera. answer me this. if these cuts not just go into

effect but are allowed to stay into effect, let's say nothing gets done even after that march 1st deadline, will the u.s. be less safe as a result of these across-the-board cuts? >> a couple of things. first of all, the president lined this up in a way that put us in this problem. by calling for an across-th across-the-boards cut in the military and intelligence business. it's dangerous. it means that they can't manage -- >> can i just say you all agreed to it. >> yes. but this was the proposal by the president so some notion that it has been shifted to the republicans, i want to see a way out of this for the simple reason that the across-the-board cut, it is damaging to our national security and our national defense for the simple reason that they can't manage the reductions in spending. i argue the best way to go through this sequester, and i do believe we're going to go into this, is give the agencies the ability to manage those reductions so that they can move

money around without across-the-board cs, because it could mean things like the second carrier group doesn't show up in the med. it means that some thousands of intelligence professionals -- >> so take the overall number and allow the various departments to say, okay, this program goes away. >> right. >> but that saves this program, et cetera. >> exactly. >> but i think there's another aspect here, too, even if you are -- give flexibility, you still have significant reduction. it's not just defense. it's education and border security. >> sure. >> so there's a better try do this, and that's the way we propose by simply arithmetic. if it it's all cuts, it's going to be very, very difficult. that's why i think you need additional revenue. >> senator mcconnell called it a political stunt, the democrats' proposal because it includes that millionaires tax which frankly i don't know how many votes you all had in the senate on the millionaires taxes but it never passes. >> it's something i think most americans would be extremely supportive of. it would essentially say people over $1 million would be paying

roughly the same rate as those middle class americans who are working very hard. that's fair, and it also will allow us -- >> they also just got a tax hike. >> for $1 million and above it would preserve the charitable deductions. >> the challenge here is the president made the argument everything will be fine if we get the wealthier to may more in taxes. he got that. you can't get that and come right back and say the wealthier need to pay more in taxes so he's gone after seniors that are doing better. now he's going after americans who are doing better in the economy. he got that. now he's coming back saying if i can tax more and then he proposed in his state of the union address more spending, and the problem here is, candy, the greatest threat to our national security is the debt and the defit long term. that's why those of us who are very interested in national security, trying to get this right, trying to make sure we posture ourselves and put ourselves in a position to defend the country, are so worried about the debt and deficit debate. we can get through this.

we can do it in a way i think that is respectful to what american priorities are, but you have to do it in a way that doesn't hurt us long term. >> it's important to say we've had about $2.4 trillion in cuts from the approved baseline. 1.7 trillion of those are spending cuts. $700 billion are revenue. unless we get back to a more balanced approach, we can't cut our way to national security. we can't cut our way to investing in education, research and development. we just have to get back to a balance, and i think the american people understand that. >> let me ask you, i want to ask you a quick question about chuck hagel and the problems that he's had getting his nomination through, and that is strictly political question. the president knew going in that this would be a tough fight for him, that chuck hagel s not the most popular guy on capitol hill. do you think that the president, and yes, he liked chug hagel and

the work from him, et cetera, would do this because they would rather have the republican do these kind of cuts to the pentagon than a democrat? >> boy, i don't think that was his -- he worked for something that was in the national security space, chuck hagel did, for some period of time. i think he built a relationship with the president. he is a vietnam veteran, a decorated vietnam veteran at that, and that's why the president selected him. the problem was, the senate now and certainly senator reed can talk to him better than i can, having difficulty both sides of the aisle, to see if he's ready and able to lead the pentagon. >> i think mike is exactly right about why he was chosen, experience and at a combat veteran, as a business leader and the second deputy head of the v.a. in the reagan administration and he's got the confidence of the president. i don't think this was designed to provoke a fight. i think in fact what's happened

is very unusual, unprecedented review, asking for speeches, going back five years, asking for all sorts of material we've never requested of confirmation before. we're confident that we'll get the confirmation concluded when we return at the end of the week. >> a quick yes or no, about the use of them and using them to target americans overseas. all awlaki and his son killed, you think there's plenty of oversight for this drone program. were you told in advance? >> for the planning purposes of air strikes and enemy combatants overseas. >> these specific men? >> if people make the target list we know that in advance. there's appropriate oversight and how we target those individuals changes from day to day, but air strikes are certainly a part that have. >> congressman rogers, senator reed, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much. pope benedict makes one of his final appearances in

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motion pictures, the entertainment media in general, adds to gun violence. here's what he said. >> well, it's sort of predictable in a way, and the -- if you go back over the years, i mean, there were people who suggested that comic books were the reason for people doing things, before any of this existed. >> didn't exactly say no, it has nothing to do with it, but he said what we ought to do is be looking at mental health. but i want to play something his fellow connecticut senator said, also a former senator, joe lieberman, about the entertainment industry and violence. >> i think the entertainment culture has to accept some responsibility. you know, in almost every one of these cases of mass shootings, it's the same pattern. a young man, troubled, reclusive, almost always involved in some kind of violent entertainment media gets guns and then kills a lot of people. >> and, yeah, all we're hearing on capitol hill is an assault

weapons ban and universal background checks, nothing about mental health other than we want our records to be better about people who shouldn't have guns but not about caring for those who are mentally ill or finding care, and nothing about the media. why is that? >> well, first of all, asking senator dodd about gun violence and movies is like asking the ceo of mcdonald's if a big mac is good for you. let me say that. i think he's right. i think it's mental illness. a great letter that went viral that said i'm adam lanza's mother that talked about her difficulty in getting her son, i believe it was, treatment, and where senator lieberman is right, i would add one other thing, five of the last six horrific shootings have been young, white men, late teens, early 20s, who have untreated mental illness, and until you get to that problem, you're really not going to get to the problem. >> you know, the president said i think in his first statement when he did the joe biden panel

said i want mental health treatment to be as accessible as guns are and no one said a word about it. >> that's something that the folks at the white house have looked at, congress has looked at. look, congress has to do what congress can do. we have a first amendment. can't really do about the media culture, no matter how we feel about it. what it can do is what the president challenged it in the state of the union to do, which is to give the victims of these horrible crimes an up or down vote on universal background checks, an up or down vote on banning military-style weapons and an up or down vote on modernizing making sure guns stay out of hands that people who shouldn't have them. that's the business that needs to get done here in washington now. >> is it going to get done? sounded to me like schumer said they sound fairly close. there will be separate packages. they will cut off assault weapons from the package they will pass. >> the up or down vote, certainly the most rousing part of his state of the union speech, but a lot of senate democrats sitting out in the

audience don't want to vote yes on this so they will vote no. that's probably good for their politics back home in arkansas and louisiana and other places. it is sort of striking that we're just talking about that. the white house does not seem to me to be pushing the whole package. we haven't heard from the vice president in a while on all that. we'll see if that changes. >> part of the reason for that, i mean, ron, correct me if i'm wrong, the white house gets the delicate politics of that, just like immigration, the president needs to use the bully pulpit but at the same point if they are making bipartisan progress, senator schumer and senator coburn, an a-rating from the nra, because the minute the president touches it could blow the whole thing up. >> or leaks a plan. >> or something like that. >> the president, we've heard aggressive, ambitious, however you want to describe his agenda for the second term. he clearly is back to his transformative presidential mode, that he wants to be remembered as actually changing

the way business is done, changing the way budgets are done, et cetera. does this put him at odds with senator harry reid, for instance, who needs to keep a majority, or would like to keep a majority in the senate, and as dana mentions, he's got some senators in reagan -- i'm sorry, reagan, whoa, in mitt romney won states that could lose on votes on immigration, on gun control. are they at odds? >> i don't know if he's at odds with senator reid, but senator reid's first statement on the assault weapons ban is he couldn't bring it up in the senate because he has five or six red state democrats that are up for re-election in 2014, and it's a very delicate a very delicate issue. the president has been bold in his state of the union address and i think if he focused on what was doable rather than sort of this wish list, he could get a lot done. but what we find here in washington, both parties, is that they want to overplay their hands and go for what i want

rather than what i can do. >> well, exactly. isn't there some thought that when you look at things like minimum wage. when you look at some of the other things on the president's agenda, those look more like political talking points for 2013 into 2014 than they do actual things that could happen. >> i don't think so, candy. i think what the president has set forward is bold, but achievable. i think times have changed. >> minimum wage. >> setting the minimum wage at $9, which just buys back the purchasing power they had had ten years ago is a pretty reasonable and achievable goal and doing something about guns, i think there is bipartisan support for that. i think the real issue here is whether or not we'll let the boehner rule, what used to be call the hastert rule that somebody can come to the floor of the house and let majority of republicans support it. those things have to come up. we have to have majority rule, not the boehner rule. >> but there isn't a boehner rule. he doesn't do that. >> we'll see on guns and

immigration. >> now might be different -- but, look, to your point about red state democrats, somebody who covers capitol hill, as soon as the president nishiates something, i don't go to republicans, i go to the conservative democrats to figure out if something is doable. that's the dynamic, no question about it. got to go there first before you think about republicans. >> hang on for me, we'll be right back and we'll have a final look at what is doable and what isn't. you can part a crowd, without saying a word... if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts... well muddlers, muddle no more. try zyrtec®. it gives you powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because zyrtec® starts working at hour one on the first day you take it. claritin® doesn't start working until hour three. zyrtec®. love the air.

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we should take on once and for all the issue of illegal immigration. we should be working on comprehensive reform. the time has come to pass comprehensive reform. we need to change our tax code. simplify the tax code. focus on the hardest problems on clean energy. i will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. as long as countries like china keep going in on clean energy, so must we. making america a magnet for new jobs and manufacture. this blue print begins with american manufacturing. all of which is to say is what get said in the state of the union doesn't necessarily

get done, at least not right away. let me ask you, imimmigration, reforming the tax code, some kind of carbon tax and manufacturing, you know, cleaning up the voting system, raising the minimum wage. what's really going to happen? >> i do agree with senator schumer from before that immigration reform in some form is doable. i think some movement on universal background checks is doable. who doesn't like manufacturing? it's like world peace. we can throw that in there, too. you know, washington is really like groundhog's day and the only thing i noticed from those clips is that boehner and biden keep switching ties from year to year. >> purple ties are in. >> ron, what -- take the other side and be honest with me. what's out there as a political weapon and not really doable realistically? >> well, i think the political will be if this stuff doesn't get done. you know, the clips show that a lot of these items have been on

the agenda for two, three, four years. the president is being very aggressive about saying, okay, it's time to get this done. immigration, close tax loopholes, raise the minimum wage. a self-inflicted wound by republicans if they don't act on these things. the public wants action. that was the message of 2012. the president has heard that loud and clear. he's making the press for action and now we'll see what the republicans and congress do. >> do you agree? >> the senate democrats, as dana was talking about earlier. specifically on energy and climate. a lot of those senators mary landrieu, mark prior and some others who are up in 2014 that don't want to take those votes. if anything happens on energy and climate, you have to wonder if it's an executive action. i think the white house is going to be much more aggressive on that in the second term. >> the epa, some power there -- >> as for immigration, there is this leaked proposal over the weekend. the white house is trying to stay out of it and at least be the best i can tell in tryi